Bending the iPhone 6 Plus at the Apple Store Is Now a Thing Idiots Do

Because teenagers.

Smartphones are in vogue and then forgotten, but vandalism never goes out of style.

Perhaps it was the natural outgrowth of the freakout about "bendghazi," but it seems that walking into an Apple Store and trying to bend the iPhone 6 Plus has now become a thing for teenagers and the generally immature. YouTube clips have surfaced; Business Insider ran a first-person account by someone who did this.

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Fact: If you make a phone wider, thinner, and from a more malleable material, less force is required to bend it. Fact: It still takes a lot of force to bend the iPhone 6 or 6 Plus, as Business Insider's account demonstrates, and most people are not going to exert enough force on their new gadget for this to be a problem. Fact: If you march into a store and intentionally break a piece of equipment that retails for more than $500, you're an idiot and possibly a criminal.

Given Apple's mountain of cash and crazy profit margins on these devices, it's hard to feel too bad for Cupertino losing a few demonstration units at the hands of the hormone-addled. That's the price you pay for inviting the world into your store to play with your shiny gizmos. But this could get out of hand, fast, given the copycat nature of teenagers. Apple Store employees with Tasers, coming soon?

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